The assessment of the Women’s World Cup is clearly not flattering for the XV of France despite a result (4th) far from being infamous. The Bleues still have a long way to go.
It is not easy to take stock of the French XV course during the Women’s World Cup. Coming to England with dreams of finals, or title, the Bleues finally stumbled on England in half and New Zealand in the small final, two large pieces, to finish in fourth place.
It is a small notch below the last editions, where the Blue had used bronze. This slight decline in the hierarchy says a lot, even if there are necessarily extenuating circumstances, since a certain renewal has taken place in the selection. “LHalf of the group played its first World Cup, thus recalled Émilie Boulard, who measures the path remaining to go. It’s a young group but we will have to grow up to become better, manage critical moments and make full matches against the top 3 teams. ”
The day after the small final,
Joanna Grisez had taken advantage of her passage on stadium 2 to sound the alarmBy denouncing the delay that French rugby is taking on its English rival. “” They have paved the way for a lot of things for rugby and today, they are professional in club, in any case semi-professional, and their clubs are structured in relation to us, which only summarizes professional in the French team, launched the wing from rugby to 7. Ultimately, it would be a question of moving a little more for our clubs to have more means and that our teams perform a little more. »»
Little distinction for blue
The level gap between the Bleues and this new world top 3, in which we now find Canada, is also measured by looking at the “XV of the tournament” established by certain specialized sites.
Ruck had chosen only a Frenchwoman, the half—-muted Pauline Bourdon-Sassus. It’s even worse for
Rugbywhich offers training with six Englishmen, six Canadian, three New Zealanders, and therefore no Tricolor.
You have to be satisfied with certain names in the list of
“Special mentions”With those of Madoussou Fall Raclot, Pauline Bourdon-Sansus, Gabrielle Vernier and Charlotte Escudero, who made a good competition. But it is a meager batch of consolation.
